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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
by Jonathan Harris
Binding: Hardcover, 289 pages
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Weight: 1.46 pound
Dimension: H: 1.42 x L: 9.21 x W: 6.38 inches
ISBN 10: 184725179X
ISBN 13: 9781847251794
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During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and monasteries covered the land and so rich that its ruler could scatter bagfuls of gold among his astonished guests. This was no legend or tall tale for Miklagarth was a real place. Better known as Constantinople, it was the capital city of the empire of Byzantium and a major political force in the eastern Mediterranean for over a thousand years. The mythical aura that surrounded Constantinople was no accident. It was assiduously cultivated by the Byzantine emperors to bolster their power, wealth and prestige. Jonathan Harris examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political, the mythical and the actual and reconstructs the awe inspiring city in its heyday in 1200.

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